Scottish Association for Pastoral Care and Counselling

 

 

SECRETARY - Rev Margaret Stein 

Rev Margaret Stein is a Church of Scotland minister who has worked with her husband in conference centre work and in parishes. She is now retired but continues to have concern for promoting good pastoral care. She has greatly enjoyed the fellowship of SAPCC and appreciates what she has learned through this involvement.  Her other interests include painting and grandchildren!

 

MINUTE SECRETARY - Gillian Turner

 

  TREASURER- Rev Ian Walker

 

Ian’s interest in the use of counselling skills in Pastoral Care started when he worked in a mining town in Zambia’s Copperbelt. There were no counselling or psychiatric services available, and people turned to the Church and the minister with problems never discussed in Theological Colleges. On returning to a parish in Scotland he undertook training in couple counselling and spent a number of years working with Lothian Couple Counselling and using the skills he had gathered in his parish work. He took up a post at St Colm’s College, later to become Scottish Churches Open College, and for 18 years taught courses in pastoral studies to full-time students, many training for the Diaconate, and to distance learning students through the T.L.S. scheme. For his closing years in ministry he returned to parish work in Rutherglen, and retired from there in April of this year.

 

 

COUNCIL MEMBER - Krisztina Nagy

 

Krisztina (Nagy) is from Hungary. She has spent many years in Scotland, both working and studying. She is a primary teacher and presently finishing a PhD in education. She is also trained as a learning support teacher and has been helping both children and adults. Krisztina is interested in pastoral care, especially with young peole.

 

 

COUNCIL MEMBER - Ligia Manastireanu

 

 Ligia Manastireanu is from Romania and in February 2007 has moved with her husband Daniel and their two children in Glasgow. She is working as a trainee counsellor at Tom Allan Centre in Glasgow while finishing her postgraduate studies in counselling.

 

 

 COUNCIL MEMBER - Gordon Brown

 

Gordon is a Roman Catholic priest on the 'retired list', but is still involved in ministry and spiritual accompaniment.  He is part of the pastoral support team at the L'Arche Edinburgh community 

 

 

 

COUNCIL MEMBER - Jean Porter

 

 Jean Porter is a Church of Scotland Deaconess working in the Raploch area of Stirling. Her particular interests lie in the pastoral care of children and families.